Elisabeth Elliot Quotes, Thoughts and images
Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
Blessings taken for granted are often forgotten.
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.
Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.